Is It Possible to Pray the Gay Away? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• 'GAY AWAY' GIMMICK NDY AT MANOBA STORE OFFENDS PARENTS
• TIME MAGAZE PROMOT ‘TRANS-THE-GAY-AWAY’ CHILD
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• TRANS THE GAY AWAY
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
• ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?

'GAY AWAY' GIMMICK NDY AT MANOBA STORE OFFENDS PARENTS

Disregardg all evince that the ex-gay movement is credibly damagg to more than 90% of those who unrgo "treatment" (bee they clearly jt didn't believe God enough), Settg Captiv Free wants you to know that you were not "born this way. " Homosexualy is a s that you need to purge om your system, and the only way to do is to follow their three-parts-a-day the app is only downloadable om Google Play (iTun and the 69, 822+ people who petned them don't believe nversn therapy for some reason), there is an abridged versn available on the mistry’s webse. But Hont About Your S (But Not TOO Hont): Adm that you have homosexual tennci, but don’t say anythg else about .

Stop Callg Your Homosexualy an "Alternative Liftyle": It's "Wicked, " "Evil, " and a "S": The are the only thgs you should ever ll om now on, preferably hhed ton. Even better, feel ee to refer to your homosexualy wh water-based metaphors: It's a "broken cistern" that will never satisfy your thirst.

Change For the Right Reasons (the Glory Of God): After all, homosexualy is nothg but "lt, porn, and sexual immoraly, " ss that are applible only to gay people and never to straight on.

TIME MAGAZE PROMOT ‘TRANS-THE-GAY-AWAY’ CHILD

Always Read Scripture, But Only the Parts We Tell You to: Who knew curg homosexualy uld be so much like dog high school homework? Remove Yourself From Anythg Even Remotely Gay: Don't watch porn (aga, 's only a gay thg), don't go on gay webs, and most of all, certaly don't associate wh gay people. Any of those thgs might make you feel like your homosexualy is a natural part of your inty and n be accepted by those around you.

Realize That Beg Homosexual Mak You Feel Alone Fet that we told you to shut yourself away om most of the world, and ignore the ia that maybe gay people feel so alone bee of the discrimatory and hateful attus that they face, helped by people like . Try not beg so gay. Rencile Wh Those Who Tried to Help You Stop Beg Gay: All those people who lled you "faggot" and told you that you were gog to Hell?

If you tly believe God and want to change your sful ways, God will remove all homosexual urg om your md. But if at the end of this 60-day therapy, you still have homosexual tennci, then you didn't really believe and you didn't really want to change. ManobaA novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available store owner says addn of novelty product was an 'hont mistake''Gay Away' gimmick ndy at Gimli store offends parentsNovelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available there.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

A novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv  Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available of "Gay Away: The origal gay pill" were on display alongsi other gag products si the store. Slogans on the pk package claim that "cur gayns" and "stops the cravg for misbehavg. " Insi is a blister pack ntag 10 piec of while Gay Away claims to be jt a gimmick, Gimli rints like Mona Johnson were not amed.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

"A parent, who did not want to be named, said his 12-year-old dghter brought a pack of Gay Away home bee she had qutns about what was about. Johnson and others said the product is offensive and uld send hurtful msag to the gay and lbian store's owner told CBC News on Wednday afternoon that she has removed the gag em om shelv after receivg lls om ncerned parents. Rachelle Mistelbacher apologized and sisted that her bs is still a fay store, and the addn of Gay Away was an oversight and an "hont mistake.

TRANS THE GAY AWAY

"Calls to Lghrat, the Toronto-based pany that produced Gay Away and other gag ems, were not returned on an email sent to CBC News on Friday, Lghrat said Gay Away's creator believ 's a "pro gay product that pok fun at not gays but rather those people opposed to gay liftyl. "The spiratn for this product was born out of the ignorance of amongst others relig anizatns and others society who suggted that homosexualy was a 'curable disease or ndn' and a liftyle choice, " the pany's email stat pany add that Gay Away has been sold hundreds of North Amerin retailers sce 2008. “Time Magaze and all of the other magaz are endorsg the trans-the-gay away procs, ” rpond Natasha Chart, an activist who argu that transgenr iology stroys the cultural and legal foundatns of women’s rights and stat.

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

Instead of acceptg a feme boy who may well grow up to be gay or lbian, the parents are g the transgenr claim to “trans-the-gay-away” by nvertg their embarrassg son to a non-embarrassg dghter, she said, addg:.

Shappley’s mother admted that she beat the boy at a young age bee she feared he would grow up to be gay. I remember even thkg before Kai was three, I thk this kid might be gay, and I thought that that uld not happen, that would not happen. Homophobic child abe.

“I was very ncerned, bee at the time I was leadg a small mistry at my church and teachg Bible study, and here I have this kid who people my fay were flat askg me if this kid was gay. Not a gay boy, not a sissy!

‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?

“Tradnally, if somebody didn’t like their gay kid, they would jt tell them to leave home, they wouldn’t strate them, ” said Aharon.

It might be hard to accept that your child is gay and do viate om the norm. A surprisg number of proment gays enurage this “trans-the-gay-away” procs, Aharon said:. I fd really que md-bogglg that proment, famo gay men support the ia of Kai [Shappley] and Jazz Jenngs [gog through this procs] bee they don’t see themselv that whole story.

‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’

“Now 18 years old, Jaah, who wr mic, has e forward revealg that she was a lbian that had stggled wh ternalized homophobia as a kid. It’s a much broar movement to dismantle the sex bary, to see blogy as a functn of power and not science, and thereby to nstct the fay and even a fixed tegory such as homosexualy … The radilism of this asslt on nature, science and bodily tegry is not hidn … a view of the body as beyond sex or genr, to be created and recreated at will and fely, and an abandonment of any stable notn of sex at all.

It clus alienated young men fantasizg about beg submissive women, lbians tryg to bee men, teenage girls tryg to flee a sexual environment twisted by pornography, and gay teenagers tryg to pe their mory stat by adoptg an attempted mastream male inty. The revelatns surroundg Marc Bachmann's psychotherapy practice along wh his statements equatg gay people to barbarians reflect the eply held view among too many people that homosexualy is a psychologil or moral choice that n be altered and ed should be. As someone who profs to help gays and lbians bee "straight, " Dr.

There are several nservative relig anizatns, like Exod Internatnal and Homosexuals Anonymo, that claim to have helped people change their sexual orientatn through prayer, unselg, or a batn of both. Moreover, there are licensed mental health profsnals who practice what are lled reparative or nversn therapi signed to make gay people heterosexual. The bt-known group of such clicians is the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), led by psychologist Joseph Nilosi.

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

He and his followers claim that gays and lbians suffer om a damagg blend of childhood trma, shamg their fai of orig, and chronic unmet needs for love and affectn om their same-sex parents. Reparative therapy supposedly helps gay clients bee heterosexual by workg wh them to amelrate toxic feelgs stemmg om their damaged childhoods. Robert Spzer, a proment psychiatrist who, oddly enough, led the charge to remove homosexualy as a disease om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual, had unrtaken rearch wh 200 women and men who unrwent reparative therapy and believed themselv to be "cured" of homosexualy, as evinced by their abily to engage sexual relatns wh the oppose sex, marry heterosexually, and nceive children.

In fact, there are many reports of people unrgog treatments offered by ex-gay mistri who not only return to homosexualy but have also been trmatized by this so-lled therapy. The real diseas are homophobia and heterosexism, not homosexualy. It is important to regnize that the great majory of psychotherapy profsnals argue vociferoly that such "treatment" is uhil bee homosexualy is not an illns — rather the "illns" is our tolerance of sexual and genr behavrs fallg outsi rtrictive societal norms.

I also tell clients that reparative and nversn therapi, bis beg effective, are psychologilly harmful to gays and lbians, which is another reason I do not remend them and will not assist clients procurg such treatment. People like Marc and Michele Bachmann believe that acceptg and even celebratg gay and lbian people will evably lead to the moral cle of our society. In realy, transgenrism is a homophobic movement that directly oppos the terts of LGB LGB muny has been sold the lie that lbians, gay men, and bisexual men and women (a group of people who are same-sex attracted) have somethg mon wh the T (a polil fictn).

WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?

This strategy, known as forced teamg, has been so succsful that LGB culture has succumbed to transgenr people doctrated to transgenr iology have unwtgly bee foot soldiers and missnari for rporate-backed homophobia, wh more and more beg sced to attemptg to “trans the gay away. Due to external homophobia and the rultg ternalized shame, some same-sex attracted people are drawn to perceived “cur” for homosexualy.

Many LGB people have turned to Christiany and attempted to “pray the gay away. ” Transgenr iology promot s own “cure” for homosexualy, though s proponents won’t say so out loud. LGB Fight Back lls “transg the gay away.